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Article: An uncertain Jesus.(commentary on Jim Crace's 'Quarantine')
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- The World and I
- Article date:
- August 1, 1998
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Vividly capturing the desert setting and its ancient tribal folk, Jim Crace offers an imaginative account of Christ's forty-day sojourn in the wilderness.
Happy families are all alike," Tolstoy wrote--a warning to writers of all places and times to beware of trying to devise stories about happy people. Trying to write about characters who are totally good is another aspect of the same problem. "How," Robert Penn Warren used to ask, "could you write a novel about your sainted grandmother?" She became interesting as a character, Warren claimed, only if you could find some letters in the attic proving that your grandfather was not who you thought he was.
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...British novelist Jim Crace gestures during an interview in London, Thursday March 15, 2007. Crace's latest novel, "The Pesthouse,", takes his revenge ...
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